: it's called 'latency' by those in the know and it's a result of the soundcard drivers u use, cpu power and settings. you want to use ASIO drivers if you can and set sound buffers to a min. on my soundblaster with ASIO driver i get >10ms delay which is not noticable. with DX drivers it's 60-750ms which is unusable. you can play midi sounds when recording then playback via vsti but that's not much fun

Steinberg rescently made a midi-device to reduce the latency to almost zero - it shouldnt be to expensive and worth checking out.

: The chordfinder won't process stereo recorded wav files, but how can I get them in mono?

put your finger in your ear. Instant mono.

I can't help you there. But you could still use a program like <a href="http://www.hitsquad.com/smm/programs/Slowgold/">SlowGold</a>. I guess it depends what you're intending to do.

Lisa

: I'm looking for a software based mp3 player that has
: the ability to slow down the song being played. I've
: seen this feature on the player that ships with one of
: the Sound Blaster cards.
: Would be much appreciated.

There are programs that attempt to get rid of the vocals and leave the music although I have never heard one that makes anything but a crap job of it. It's too much to expect a program to be able to pickout such a wide bandwidth source (vocals...) without removing the corresponding frequencies of other instruments. Check the file area on this site under Karaoke and try it for yourself and get disappointed like the rest of us..

Hi/Low pass filtering is a great and under used eq tool. A common use for it is thus...

If you have a multitracked song with lots of different instruments playing at the same time, you may find the sound gets muddy and saturated. The likely hood is that you are allowing too many frequencies of the same type into the same stereo mix.

If you have recorded a cymbal, there is no point in allowing that track 20-500hz (and usually above) of the audio spectrum as there is no usable information for a cymbal at that bandwidth. You could then Hi-Pass filter (lets everything 'above' the set frequency to pass untouched) up to 500hz or higher which would remove the bandwidth that may contain some unnecessary noise that is cluttering up the mix. Low passing a bass guitar can be very effective too although a purist engineer will only use Hi/Low pas filtering on carefully selected instruments so as not to adversely affect the nuiances of that instrument. This type of filtering is very good at creating a mix that gives the impression that the instruments in the mix are no swamping each other and therefore creating seperating.

Steve...R

<A HREF="http://www.syntrillium.com/cep/mp3.htm">get it here!</A>

: i need the cool edit mp3 converter addon how can i get it? someone please help.

The latency you are experiencing is most defenetly due to youre soundcard drivers. 46ms sounds like youre running a soundbastard-cardor something... The latency compensation is used when syncing as a slave to another sequencer, so if youre running reason as a single proagram the latency copmpensation should be set equal the actual latency value. You could try to lower the latency value to the point where no clicks or pops is audioble. Playing a keyboard with over half a second latency is not tolereble. If you cant get the values down to an accepteble point (1-4ms according to me), then its time to buy a new sound card.

: I just found a free version of the vst plugin halion but it doesnt come with any sound samples. Where can I find program bank sound files for this?

I have been looking for a while for Halion could you please mail me the plugin or tell me where i can find it.

Thank you

Or you could just stay here :)

Lisa

: I've been reading here for a few months and let me tell you, if you want to learn about recording, take a look at recording.org !

: best regards,

: Quincy

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Repost & include info on CD program, & OS...

I need to mix some songs i downloaded of the internet, where can i get a good/free mixing/editing program of the internet??

Thanks Sam

It's got a lot to do with the system and the soundcard. It's known as 'latency' (delay) and is quite common. This problem can be alleviated with the right computer running a pro audio card.

In the interim, you should calculate how much delay there is and always reduce the audio tracks by that amount.

Steve...R